BATON ROUGE, La. (October 7, 2026) – The University of North Alabama women's tennis team heads to Baton Rouge, La. for the ITA Southern Regional from Oct. 8-12.
North Alabama travels to the campus of LSU for the major ITA tournament.
The Lions enter the weekend after two student-athletes, senior Mathilde Delaney and sophomore Sammie Schouten, competed in the Blue Gray Classic on a last-minute invite after Iowa State dropped out due to travel issues. Delaney brought home one win against UAB.
Before this tournament, the Lions earned 15 wins at the Lipscomb/Belmont Invite, defeating Lipscomb, Belmont and MTSU in doubles and singles rounds.
ABOUT THE ITA SOUTHERN REGIONAL
The five-day event features high-level competition against Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, UAB, LSU, Louisiana, Ole Miss, Tulane, Nicholls State, Southern, Samford, Louisiana Tech, Troy, Southern Miss and McNeese.
The tournament's two singles finalists and doubles champions will qualify for the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championship from Nov. 17-22 in Athens, Ga. at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.
Competing in the main singles draw for the Lions will be seniors Emma Ansorge and Mathilde Delaney. In the opening round of singles, Ansorge is set to face Tulane's Whitley Pate while Delaney is set to face Ole Miss's Alice Battesti.
Competing in the qualifying singles rounds will be Schouten, junior Josefa Fuenzalida Salamanca and freshmen Rio Wakayama and Anastasiia Kostiushkina.
Wakayama is facing a player from Southern Miss and will face Louisiana Tech if she wins, as the Bulldogs have a bye. Kostiushkina has a bye in the opening round and will either face Louisiana Tech or Nicholls State in the second round. Schouten is set to face Southern University in the first round, while Fuenzalida is set to face McNeese.
Senior Ada Karabacak will solely be competing in doubles rounds with her partner, Kostiushkina. Their opening round will be against the University of Louisiana, and if they win, they will face a team from Ole Miss, who has a first round bye.
In doubles, Delaney and Ansorge will pair for an opening round against Southern University. If they win, they face an LSU pair as they have an opening round bye. Wakayama and Fuenzalida's first round of doubles will be against UAB.
Last season, UNA competed in the ITA Southern Regionals in Auburn, Ala., taking home 14 wins. The tournament will take place at the LSU Tennis Complex.
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